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Topic: Challenge Coins? (Read 3983 times)

My dad has a couple of these. It's an old military tradition. Soldiers would be given these ornate coins and carry them around everywhere. Soldiers would occasionally challenge each other to show their coins or buy everyone drinks.

I think it would be cool to integrate something like this into a D&D game. Do you guys have any thoughts?

I think it'd be something to add in as world-fluff, to make it feel more real and add some spice.

"Show me your coin, I buy drinks. Don't show me your coin, you buy drinks. If you don't know that you're supposed to buy drinks, you're a saboteur and will be executed. Then I'll use your money to buy drinks anyway."

A paladin of the southern empire gets thrown out of a tavern in Kire. He has been beaten down to 1 hp and his weapons and armor have been taken from him. The warrior that tossed him out the door yells,"If you don't got a coin, don't walk around our city showing your steel, you foreign git!"

I was thinking maybe these coins could be used as rewards for completing quests. Various orginizations would hand these out in recognition of great deeds (in addition to other rewards, of course).These coins could be collected and trades with NPCs and shown to gain access to information and entrance to various areas.

I honestly think it could work the exact same way in a fantasy world as in a modern one. I personally wouldn't be handing these out as achievement rewards, but rather as markers of devotion. The PCs won't be given these except by an organization that they've associated themselves with, and become true members of. I think they might be able to function roughly like any "in-group" item, allowing you to have premade contacts within a city, people who will act favorably and also those who won't, simply by the fact that you have the coin you do.